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Getting started on a microservice adoption isn’t trivial given the challenge of migrating existing data, merging with other data sets, keeping yourself in a ‘known good state’, and the new requirement of honoring contracts long after you’ve moved onto a new way of doing something. At least it’s just a technical problem that can easily be changed and monitored over the course of it’s implementation. I covered some options to start that half of the work in my prior microservice article and isn’t a goal here.

The real challenge comes in the other half of the work to lay the foundation for the microservices effort – the path to a DevOps supporting culture – which is our goal for this sub-section of the “working towards microservices” series. It’s the hardest half of the two parts given that it’s a business problem that can’t be easily changed or monitored – it requires changing the organization’s culture. Unlike computers which change their logic processing with a deployment, humans are pretty stubborn when confronted with new information, or conflicting ideas and thoughts.

You can’t directly change the culture just like you can’t directly change a person’s personality. You can change the culture indirectly by modifying behavior through the implementation of an intrinsic motivation and reward system, or working towards the implementation of a social-norm culture.Continue reading